Taking some "me time" on the toilet should be a peaceful experience, and usually, it is, in the comfort of your own home, but what happens when you have to use a public restroom? Even the most bathroom shy of people has been caught in that terrifying moment of panic where you have to frantically search for a restroom and pray that you don't find anything too horrific inside.
The following is a list compiled by Bored Panda of the most extreme bathroom design fails that made at least one person if not everyone's' bathroom experience odd, uncomfortable, terrifying and possibly hilarious. From toilettes with no stall to inconveniently placed soap dispensers you won't believe these crappy designs. And remember don't forget to upvote your favs!
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Our Airbnb Had A Translucent Bathroom Door. I’m Used To My Impatient Toddler Stalking Me Through The Bathroom Door, But This Took It To A Much Creepier Level
If you have ever been to a public restroom you will notice that the line for the women's bathroom tends to be longer than the men's. Well researchers have found that men actually spend more time on the toilet than women do - seven hours a year in fact. According to the poll men reported they used their bathroom time to hide from a nagging partner, avoid kids, spend time on their phone or just for some 'me time.'
My Friend Sent Me This Picture. He Called It The Most Judgmental Bathroom
As If Public Toilets Didn’t Give Me Enough Anxiety
Factoring both men and women, the average person spends at least 92 days in the toilet over the course of their lifetime. We use the toilet around 5 to 7 times a day which adds up to 2500 times a year. If you factor in the minutes spent each time, it could be possible you are spending more than three months or three years of your life in the bathroom!
Taking "Porcelain Throne" To The Extreme
"We Need To Decorate The Toilet For The Disabled." "Say No More"
There is nothing particularly entertaining about going to the bathroom, but that didn't stop South Korea from opening the first (and only) 'Restroom Cultural Park.' This odd toilet themed park opened in 2012 and includes a toiled shaped museum, toilet sculptures and toilet-related artwork.
Toilet In The Meeting Room
Sink Attached To The Toilet, Forming A Perfect Slide
This is why you should always pud the lid down. And of course also because when you flush, fecal matter flies around. You would not want that.
If you have ever wondered why someone is taking extra long in the toilet it may not be for the reason that you think. Surveys that 75% of people use their cellphones whilst on the toilet, whether it's texting, emailing or even taking phone calls. With this much cell-related bathroom activity it's no wonder that 7 million phones end up in the toilet each year.
This Bathroom Has A Guitar Urinal That Replays Tunes You Play For Everyone In The Restroom
I am not a dude, but if I was... your damn straight I would wait to go pee in that urinal. Also, nice touch with the stage lights.
When You Play The Sims But Forget To Rotate
I mean, on the Sims, we can just fix the problem easily by rotating them again. But this?
Going to the bathroom takes up a significant amount of our lives, but using a proper toilet is something many of us take for granted. In 2001, November 19th was named as "U.N World Toilet Day" by the World Toilet Organization, "a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide." The aim of this day is "breaking the silence on the sanitation crisis."
This Bathroom Is Making Me Want To Try Unrealistic Challenges
The Paint In This Public Restroom
For a largely sedentary activity, using the toilet comes with lots of risks. A reportedly 85% of bathroom-related injures occur from someone falling into the toilet after the seat has been left up. Leaving the seat up was listed as one of the top bathroom annoyance for women - hmm looks like there is a correlation there.
Rule #1 In Designing A Wheelchair-Accessible Bathroom...
Bathroom Stall In A D.C. Bathroom
When you are entertaining guests at your house you may not focus too much on how presentable your bathroom is or what's in there but maybe you should. It has been recorded that 70% of house guests snoop through other people's bathroom cabinets and drawers.
Attention
Well, I am a disabled, elderly pregnant child and I do not see what is wrong with this. Please excuse me, I need the bathroom and you are standing in the doorway.
Super Awkward Semi-Transparent Bathroom Stall Doors
American Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857 and boy is the world thankful. Americans use 433 million miles of toilet paper in a year, which is enough to stretch to the sun and all the way back.
What Is This?! A Sink For Ants?!
This Men's Bathroom
We have all found some unsavory things in public restrooms, but regardless of how many people use these toilets there are actually no more bacteria in public toilet than in a home bathroom. The air in public restrooms is normally cool, dry, and filled with oxygen which is not ideal for supporting fecal matter bacteria. Our of the other germs found in these public bathrooms 68% of them we come into contract with just by being outside.
The Sink In My Hotel Was A Bit... Complicated
OMG, I know where this is!!!! It is at McMenamins Olympic Club, in Centralia, WA. Great restaurant & movie theater, very bohemian with eclectic art by local artists.
Not Exactly The Color Pattern You Like To See In A Bathroom
University of Arizona microbiology professor Charles P. Gerba found that soap in public toilets can actually make you dirtier. There’s “so much fecal matter that you’re almost better off washing your hands in the toilet after you flush it,” said Gerba. Airborne bacteria finds its way into open dispensers and the over-dilution of soap mixtures make it less resistant to the germs living there - gross.
My Arms Are About 7 Feet Long, So This Wasn't An Issue For Me
Another Guy And I Both Walked In The Bathroom At The Same Time. After Seeing This, He Said "This Isn't Going To Happen" And He Walked Out
one goes, the other waits and then goes after the first one is done. the cycle
Thinking Of Becoming A Mum?
Hotel Henri IV. Mosaic Art In The Bathroom
All Toilets Must Be Centered In The Middle Of The Classroom So Kids Eating Their Snacks Three Feet Away Can Bare Witness To Their Classmates Defecating
this *might* be in a classroom for special children and be used as an emergency resort. Depending on the age of the children that wall may even be high enough to block visibility most of the time. Not saying I love it, just saying I can see when this might actually be handy
It may block the view, but won't block the sound. Or the smell. Some of us gag at that, you know.
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It's a good preparation for those going to jail later in life...! =)
I thought I was the only one. I also get the ones where I need to take a shower and the only ones available are the open ones.
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Isn't the reasoning behind this set up: to let the other kids see how other potty-trained kids do their nr1 & nr 2 business?
Yes, a teaching experience. And to see where the food that they are currently just eating will end up later :/ :)
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Omg we had those! We also had a bathroom and there were just toilets and a sink, no stalls
My guess is that is what the wipes are for?? But, lets hope not....
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My son is 6 and in year 2 and still sometimes gives me 30 seconds notice that he needs a pee, and 2 and 3 year olds are even worse. It's probably set up like this to prevent accidents and it's only the same as them using a potty or having a nappy changed which is often done at home in the bedroom or livingroom. It also means that a staff member is not taken up escorting one or two children to the toilet, cleaning up any spills and helping with clothing all day. Also, it's a lot more hygenic than using a potty, as it's flushed straight away and not carried to the loo for emptying, risking spillages.
The toilet set up is pretty typical for 18 to 36 month old toddlers, in a preschool setting. Teachers can monitor students, assist them, and clean up the accidents that are part of learning. But the toilets would be in their own room, nowhere close to the learning, crafting and eating surfaces. The sinks would be nearby, as well, in the bathroom. This classroom location breaks all kinds of health codes.
Ugh, I remember that in my kindergarten, after swimming all the girls would have to stand in line naked waiting for their turn in the shower and all the boys were staring behind the clear glass door and teachers didn't care even if this felt very embarrassing to many.
I would run away crying if I saw another student defecating in the wide open.
OMG This is the source of my dreams on Judgement Pooping....my nursery school in CA was like this...total memory recall! LOL
I went to a Montessouri school for preschool and kindergarten, and the toilets in the bathroom weren’t even separated by stalls. Just two or three toilets right next to each other.
That is how it is the women's room at my husband's church at the end of our road. Yes, they are Baptists. And yes, I am an atheist!!
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I did. I could NEVER have gone like this. I have always had a shy bladder! So forget pooping, much less peeing!
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Bare witness? No. The children will BEAR witness of the child on the toilet who might, in fact, be at least partially bare.
The children will BEAR witness of the child on the toilet who might, in fact, be at least partially bare.
Given that the tile wall continues passed the wall with the wipes sitting on top and there is a plunger in the corner there is not one toilet in the middle of the room there is two.
I REMEMBER THIS! I don't know which(I went to several preschools), but one was like this. I was fine with it tbh
At kindergarten it’s probably convenient because if the teacher had to escort every kid every time anyone “has to go” there would ALWAYS be a teacher less classroom.
My son has special needs and when he's gotta go, he's gotta go. I would choose this over soiled pants any day. Potty training kids are the same, they might sit on the loo 10 times each during nursery hours. Times that by a room full of kids and staff would be so tied up in the toilets that legal supervision numbers would not be being met.
My daycare had a toilet in the main room, but discretely in the corner with side walls and strategic shelving on one side. They idea is with younger kids they have time to make it to the toilet, the teachers aren’t abandoning a full class of kids and other kids are encouraged to be potty trained.
when I was in preschool, the bathrooms were separated by gender, and the girls bathroom had divides between toilets but just a continual curtain that goes across the whole section, and it was always open. Compared to this, my school didn't seem so bad anymore
golly I remember being in boarding school as a child. we all lines up to use the toilet. One nun flushed the other whips our privets. then we left.
Disgusting!! Even wee little ones merit their privacy; this is some third-world backwards non-evolved c**p.
SMH. Has no one on this thread ever had to potty train a child? Then multiply that by 8-10. The teachers have to take each child to sit on the potty multiple times a day and if the child shows any signs of needing to go. The toilet can't be far and the teachers can't leave the others alone.
I would have said some backwater Muslim country, but this commode has TP so it can't be that.
Great idea, because If kids need to pee por poo, they won't miss the class
I'm sure this isn't in the US, and it definitely should be behind closed doors.
It is mandatory for children's toilets in kindergardens to be on plain sight for any adult as a measure anti sexual abuse on children. Yeah, the mere idea is creepy af for main of the people on the planet... but, well you know...
That will cause problems with “holding “ and constipation! A fear of public bathrooms and of people watching you! No wonder kids are screwed up! Society is messing with them from th start! I would find a school that doesn’t do this! Unreal! Imagine all the infections they must come home with!
It doesn't even have a lid to close so think of all the fecal matter flying around when they flush.
This is not a real bathrooom. Notice there is no handle to flush on the toilet and there is a label on the wall in both english and spanish? Also labels on just about everything else in the room? This is a classroom used for ESL classes.
And smell all of the wonderful smells associated with the bathroom. . .
This is how toilets are set up in prisons. Surely this isn't a prison for small children.
schools are prisons for children
Load More Replies... People, let me explain... due to hygene and sanitary reasons this is TOTALLY against structural and construction codes, especially in a public buildings. Yes, it is in my line of business.
It is for a preschool. It helps potty train children, it is kind of convenient so an adult is not alone in the bathroom with your child.
What toilet-fetished pedophile thought this up 😅
As someone who used to work with kids this is genius! Sometimes a child needs a lot of attention while potty training and staff simply cannot be away from the group for that long. The toilets themselves are facing away from the tables, no way any of the other children could see what was going on.
Is not, oooo nevermind i saw your profile picture, yea it is child abuse
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Just What You Want To See In The Bathroom Of An Ice Cream Shop
My New Apartment's Toilet Is So Narrow That Even My Skinny Ass Doesn't Fit In It
This Bathroom In My Local Cinema. Peek-A-Poo
This Waiting Area For The Toilet
Bathroom Mirror At A Bar In Italy
For the people who got here after the trim... You're not missing anything.
I hate that new trend on BP. Why are they doing this? It's just pissing people off.
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Why did I just spend roughly 10 minutes of my time staring at toilets?
WELL IT WAS YOUR CHOICE--AND MINE TOO. I THOUGHT THEY WERE FUNNY!!
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I was thinking of posting a pic of the toilet in my new home, but I can't find my camera. When I first saw it I knew it looked 'different'. Peeing standing up is a problem, and not everything hits the bowel. Sitting down felt like you were on a booster seat. Ok, the toilet is called a "shelf toilet". Look it up. The floor around the toilet needs mopping after every pee, unless you sit down, and the bowel needs scrubbing after every poop. Pain the the bloody a*s! lol
Hitting the bowel? I know it wasn't intentional, but you just gave me a good laugh.
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Ok, I have to make the question: Does anybody in here already used a toilet with someone else, in the same room, watching? Is this a common thing to do?
Yes, when I was younger and went partying, women prefer going in pairs. You can chat, one holds your drink, borrow eachothers makeup and it is safer as there are rapists that force themselfes into the toilet with you.
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OH MY GOD!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing most of these reading rooms!!!! YUCKY POOP AND PEE!!!
Most of this stuff is literally like from my nightmares.. Srsly i have awfull dreams of toilets in the middle of the room etc, i have some kind of fear or something?? idk?
We stayed at a cabin by a lake where the shelf above the sink would empty onto the floor if you moved ever so slightly off the adjacent toilet.
Some of these are just so dumb I have a hard time believing they were not on purpose, I then proceed to look at the world news and the people the world admires and those in leadership and realise it was not on purpose then I proceed to look at the amazing humans that landed on the moon and then proceed to stop thinking about it!
For the people who got here after the trim... You're not missing anything.
I hate that new trend on BP. Why are they doing this? It's just pissing people off.
Load More Replies... Why did I just spend roughly 10 minutes of my time staring at toilets?
WELL IT WAS YOUR CHOICE--AND MINE TOO. I THOUGHT THEY WERE FUNNY!!
Load More Replies... I was thinking of posting a pic of the toilet in my new home, but I can't find my camera. When I first saw it I knew it looked 'different'. Peeing standing up is a problem, and not everything hits the bowel. Sitting down felt like you were on a booster seat. Ok, the toilet is called a "shelf toilet". Look it up. The floor around the toilet needs mopping after every pee, unless you sit down, and the bowel needs scrubbing after every poop. Pain the the bloody a*s! lol
Hitting the bowel? I know it wasn't intentional, but you just gave me a good laugh.
Load More Replies... Ok, I have to make the question: Does anybody in here already used a toilet with someone else, in the same room, watching? Is this a common thing to do?
Yes, when I was younger and went partying, women prefer going in pairs. You can chat, one holds your drink, borrow eachothers makeup and it is safer as there are rapists that force themselfes into the toilet with you.
Load More Replies... OH MY GOD!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing most of these reading rooms!!!! YUCKY POOP AND PEE!!!
Most of this stuff is literally like from my nightmares.. Srsly i have awfull dreams of toilets in the middle of the room etc, i have some kind of fear or something?? idk?
We stayed at a cabin by a lake where the shelf above the sink would empty onto the floor if you moved ever so slightly off the adjacent toilet.
Some of these are just so dumb I have a hard time believing they were not on purpose, I then proceed to look at the world news and the people the world admires and those in leadership and realise it was not on purpose then I proceed to look at the amazing humans that landed on the moon and then proceed to stop thinking about it!
